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India is a vast country with a long coastline and it is bounded seas and ocean on all the three sides. It has many lakes, rivers, streams, tanks and innumerable ponds different types of perennial and seasonal water sources. Capture fishery from all these resources has been in vogue from time immemorial. Hence the fishing industry of India is ancient in quality and therefore is influenced by customs and traditions, which are inherited from generation to generation. Fish is closely associated with mankind as our ancient literature, sculptures, and paintings.